Quote: "Authorities say a man is dead after a small plane crash in Ashley County Saturday morning. Deputies say the crash happened in a field near the Ashley and Chicot County line. According to reports, the plane took off from a nearby agricultural airport before it disappeared around 7 a.m."

Note: And eight small planes crashed the day prior too, mentioned in the 2015-08-01 update. Increasingly contaminated atmosphere, planes fly through the atmosphere, more planes crashing, not too complicated. I wouldn't count on those 'friendly skies' being too awfully friendly from here on out...

Quote: "The military plane had dropped a bomb in the heart of the city centre main commercial street where shopkeepers open in the early morning before crashing in the middle of the marketplace, two witnesses said. 'The plane had dropped a bomb on the main Bazaar street at low altitude only seconds before it crashed,' said Ghazal Abdullah, a resident who was close to the incident. The Observatory said the jet was not shot down."

Quote: "The New Jersey Turnpike’s southbound lanes and its northbound express lanes remained closed through the rush hour Tuesday evening in the area of an accident that killed a driver whose dump truck struck a concrete pillar and burst into flames..."

Quote: "Some drivers stuck in the traffic said that parts of the bridge appeared to be falling off after the crash."

Quote: "It’s believed the lady lost control of her new Audi when suffering a medical episode on Edinburgh Street around 10.30am. A man riding past managed to pull her to safety and call emergency crews. 'She’s got out before the car exploded,' Paramedic Jayson Hacker has told Channel Nine."

Quote: "A 49-year-old pilot has escaped serious injury after a light plane crash near Paddy's River, south of Canberra on Thursday. Police said the plane went down in a field south of Tharwa near Nass Road and Sunshine Road. Emergency services were called to the site at 3.47pm. The male pilot was taken to the Calvary Hospital for observation and discharged late on Thursday evening."

Quote: "The Defense Ministry said the crash was believed to be caused by a technical problem, but provided no further details. Afzal Aman, the Defense Ministry's chief of operations, described it as 'the worst calamity to hit the air force.' He confirmed the casualty figure, and said the dead included a unit commander and 11 soldiers, as well as the crew."

Quote: "The Saranac Lake Fire Department was called to the scene near Lake Clear. State Police in Ray Brook say they got the call that a civilian plane went down at around 6:30 Friday night. Troopers say the plane was completely destroyed, and on fire when they arrived. When local fire departments put out the flames, four bodies were found in the wreckage. The plane crashed about one half mile Northwest of the Adirondack Regional Airport in Lake Clear."

Quote: "Hail ripped through the metal nose of the plane and caused damage to crucial GPS systems the pilots and air traffic controllers rely on for landing flights every day. Passengers feared for their lives."

Quote: "According to Good Morning America, passenger Rob Wessman said some people aboard the plane were holding hands and crying."

Quote: "The CHP says that a solo motorcycle traveling at 55 miles per hour on the right lane was involved in a crash, and that according to witnesses, the Newhall man was riding when he appeared to pass out and slump over his motorcycle."

Quote: "A helicopter traveling from an oil rig crashed into the lagoon in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, killing four people on Wednesday, according to aviation officials. The helicopter belongs to Bristow, a Houston, Texas-based firm that charters helicopters to oil and gas companies, said spokesman Yakubu Dati of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria. Dati said four people died and eight survived. Injured victims were taken to the hospital, according to the National Emergency Management Agency."

Quote: "This is the second time the Turnpike has been shut down in a week. On Aug. 4, a dump truck overturned on the Turnpike and became engulfed in flames under the Wood Avenue Bridge in Linden, killing the driver of the truck..."

Quote: "An Egyptian military aircraft crashed near the Libyan border while on a mission against Islamist militants on Thursday, killing four people and injuring another two, the military said. A statement said the crash in the Mediterranean coastal town of Marsa Matrouh was due to a 'technical fault'. It did not make clear whether all the dead and injured were aboard the aircraft."

Quote: "Sheriff Frank Rogers says the wreckage was discovered Thursday in the Oroville area in north-central Washington as crews responded to new wildfires in the area. Oroville is a small town near the Canadian border. Rogers says it appeared the plane crash may have caused one of the fires."

Quote: "The Lancair plane went down Thursday about 460 miles west of Point Reyes, California. Nobody else was aboard the aircraft, which had taken off from Southern California. The pilot had stopped responding to communications as the plane drifted out to sea. Four different aircraft tried to contact him for about three hours, and he could be seen slumped over the controls."

Quote: "A 43-year-old mother, driving with her two kids in a Ford Flex had what police believe was a medical episode that caused her to get up to a high rate of speed and then caused her to lose control of her vehicle, crashing head-on with another vehicle."

Note: She had to be having a seizure, so her legs were spazzing - that's why she accelerated. She was also the fatality, so the 'medical episode' might have been what actually killed her. She had her two kids with her and both of them were injured. You can't count on not spazzing out, falling unconscious or dying while driving anymore, especially near bodies of water or other low-lying areas. You can't count on OTHER drivers not spazzing out, falling unconscious or dying while driving anymore either. Grosse Pointe Farms is located on the shore of Lake St. Clair...

Quote: "Two tractor-trailers and five cars collided at around 6 a.m., killing at least one person and left several others with life-threatening injuries. Life Star was called to the scene along with paramedics from several neighboring communities. One first responder described the scene as 'cars on top of cars.'"

Quote: "Authorities told WFAA that an 18-wheeler headed south between Valley View and Sanger crossed the median and crashed through a cable barrier and into the northbound lanes at about 2 p.m., slamming into a Honda Odyssey minivan and killing its driver and passenger. The big rig — dragging the cable barrier along with it — started a small grass fire as it finally came to rest 15 feet from railroad tracks. The truck’s driver was taken to North Texas Medical Center in Gainesville, where he was pronounced dead."

Note: These big rigs veering into oncoming traffic are among the scariest accidents, in my opinion anyway. Not much you can do about a big rig suddenly in your face out of nowhere...

Quote: "Authorities said five people were killed Sunday when two small planes collided in midair while approaching an airport in southern San Diego County, Calif., sparking brush fires in a remote field where the wreckage landed."

Note: Atmospheric contamination problem, planes fly through the atmosphere, more planes crashing - that's about as simple as it gets. It's definitely getting more dangerous to fly, but things are gonna get a whole lot worse before they get better. Actually, things will never get better, not on any timescale that means anything to human beings anyway. That said, you're still safer on big jumbo jets than on any kind of propeller-driven plane, even a big one, or helicopter. Even so, your odds of dying while flying are going to be going up as time goes on, regardless of the type of aircraft...

Note: Sekiu isn't far from Port Townshend, about 45 miles as the gas blows, where a man saw a gigantic silent expanding cloud of fire in the sky, mentioned in the 2015-08-13 update. That was an atmospheric gas plume - methane and/or hydrogen sulfide - burning off in the air in a 'flash fire'. Once those start hitting cities, entire cities or at least large sections of cities will be going up in flames...

Quote: "The Federal Aviation Administration said one person suffered minor injuries after the Schweizer 269 helicopter made the hard landing around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. The pilot was practicing landing under a loss of engine power simulation when the engine actually cut out."

Quote: "According to Rhode Island State Police, Dwight Greenleaf suffered a medical emergency just before 6:30 a.m. and lost control of his vehicle near Exit 4. The tractor trailer then veered off into the woods and struck a tree. Eyewitnesses told police that Greenleaf exited his vehicle on his own, stated that he fainted prior to the crash, then collapsed and fell to the ground."

Quote: "Downriver commuters and weekend travelers coming into Detroit will have to find alternative routes until early Monday following a spectacular tanker truck explosion before dawn Thursday that critically injured the driver and severely damaged a mile-long portion of northbound Interstate 75."

Quote: "The Wyandot County Sheriff's Office says a bus driver suffered some sort of medical emergency while driving members of the Toledo NAACP. The bus crashed on US-23 near County Road 72. No injuries were reported and the scene has been cleared."

Quote: "UAW members and supporters say they are lucky to be alive tonight. This after the bus they were riding in careened down US 23 after the driver suffered a medical emergency."

Quote: "The Blue Lakes charter bus hit several sign posts, crossed the median before it finally stopped. The bus hit a metal guard rail just feet from a ravine. One of the women on the bus says the bus was traveling on the wrong side of the expressway and almost hit an oncoming patrol car."

Quote: "They say the unnamed driver was blue and unconscious. Those women say the driver was going in-and-out of consciousness during CPR. He was flown to a Toledo hospital. His condition is unknown."

Quote: "Authorities said an undisclosed medical incident appears to be the cause of a one-car crash on Route 12A Thursday morning that hospitalized the driver, toppled traffic lights and snarled traffic around the shopping plazas for hours."

Quote: "The two were traveling in the northbound right lane of the Thruway and cut across two lanes, hitting another box truck and a pickup truck before crossing the guardrail into oncoming traffic, where they were hit by a tractor-trailer near exit 14B, police said."

Quote: "Seven people died and a further 14 people were injured, four of whom were taken to hospital, when the jet crashed into the A27 at 13:20 BST on Saturday. 'It is possible that tonight [Saturday] and tomorrow we are going to find more bodies at the scene,' said Supt Jane Derrick of Sussex Police."

Quote: "Sussex police announced at a press conference that they have the names of 11 people whom they are treating as 'highly likely' to be dead."

Quote: "A Metro bus crashed into a tree early Saturday in Westwood after the bus driver fainted, sending the driver and four passengers to local hospitals to be treated for minor injuries. The bus swerved off the street at 2:10 a.m. on Wilshire Boulevard between Westholme and Thayer avenues, and crashed into a tree, said Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey."

Note: And the day prior, a charter bus driver had a 'medical emergency' and the bus went careening down the highway, on US 23 in Wyandot County (Ohio), mentioned in the 2015-08-21 update...

Quote: "The woman suffered burns and multiple contusions, while the pilot died, though it was unclear if that happened before or after the plane crashed near Seville airport in south-western Spain, an emergency services spokesman said. 'He died, possibly before the accident, during the flight,' the spokesman said."

Note: The day prior, a vintage jet just crashed into cars on a highway and exploded at an airshow in coastal Shoreham (Britain), killing at least 7 people and injuring 14 more, mentioned in the 2015-08-22 update...

Quote: "Driver died after car crashed into irrigation canal in southeast Bend Sunday morning; police say he apparently had a medical crisis."

Note: You just can't count on staying conscious - or even alive - while driving anymore. Or while not driving, for that matter. That's probably the cause of many of the small plane crashes too, but they just find a plane and a body, often burned to ashes, so they assume the plane crash caused the death and never stop to think that the pilot collapsing unconscious or dead might have been the very reason there was a crash...

Note: Another series of planes crashing. The death toll from that fiery plane crash in coastal Shoreham (Britain), mentioned in the 2015-08-22 update, has risen to 11 too. There've been a crazy number of planes crashing this month, mostly small planes, plus 13 aircraft smoking or burning in August, so far...

Quote: "Two people have been found dead inside a vehicle that apparently crashed into a Green Bay tire shop, which was destroyed by fire. Green Bay police say the fire happened about 2 a.m. Thursday. Firefighters arrived to find Hernandez Auto and Tire engulfed in flames."

Note: Geographically, river, stream and creek bridges and coastal roads are the most likely places for people to slump over unconscious or dead while driving, though you're not safe anywhere. In terms of time, the wee hours are when you're most likely to slump over unconscious or dead...

Quote: "A pilot escaped injury shortly after 2:15 p.m. Saturday when the landing gear of a single-engine private airplane collapsed upon touching down on the main runway of the Columbia Regional Airport."